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Milk glass is a recent name for
opaque, milky white or colored glass, that is blown or pressed into a wide
variety of shapes. through the
addition of tin oxide. Other milk glass colors include blue, pink, yellow, brown, and black.
Made into decorative dinner-ware, lamps, vases, and costume jewelry, milk glass
was highly popular during the fin de siecle.
Milk glass has a considerable following of collectors and some glass
makers continue to produce it, including reproductions of popular collectible
pieces and patterns like:
Amber Crest ,
Aqua Crest ,
Emerald Crest ,
Hobnail ,
Ivory Crest ,Peach Crest ,Silver Crest ,Beaded Grape ,
Old Quilt .Milk glass glow under an ultraviolet light source due to the reflection from the
white oxide or dioxide pigments used in its manufacture, and is similar to the
way in which white clothing will glow violet under a black light.
Main manufaturers were:Atterbury Glass Company ,
Fenton Glass Company ,
Fostoria Glass Company ,
Hobbs, Brockunier & co. ,
Imperial Glass Company ,Jeannette Glass Company ,
Kanawha Glass Co. ,
Kemple Glass ,
MacBeth-Evans Glass Company ,
McKee Glass Company ,
Morgantown Glass Works ,
Mosser Glass ,
L. E. Smith Glass Company ,Westmoreland Specialty Company ,
Westmoreland Glass Company ,L.G. Wright Glass Company . |
